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Jesus, that kidney stones one is bad :( It's funny when the LLM totally checks out of reality, but not at all funny when the statement seems plausible to ignorant people. (A lot people seem to subscribe to an ideology of "dumb people get what they deserve." What this really means to me is "I have Dunning-Kruger syndrome," but I wonder how much of that gets filtered down into making excuses for AI that sucks so badly…
If I already know the answer to something, why would I be looking it up? These answers from AI should assume the person on the other end doesn’t know anything and isn’t going to fact check. If they were going to fact check, they’d just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with AI. To me, a real sign of intelligence and maturity is being able to say, “I don’t know.” I always lose a lot of respect for…
It's easy to hold it wrong if you believe things you see in print.
I'm really curious - how will this affect sites that monetize off of affiliate links and ads? It seems to me that AI summarization and overview will deter, at the minimum reduce, the number of page clicks and traffic to sites that are producing information.
Considering how much Google search has shaped my life, I am somewhat* surprised by the amount of people in this thread, who apparently have zero tolerance for continued innovation in this area and the rough edges it brings. *Oh well, it's hn, after all
Adding to the litany of bad google ideas from the past 10+ years: - Killing google reader - Pointless UI changes - Multiple chat and videocall apps that cannibalize each other. - Stadia fiasco - Shoving AI down our throats in their MAIN PRODUCT What's the source of this rot? I have a friend at google who says the place is filled with smart people competing with each other. Perhaps this competition fuels a chaotic lac…
I've heard one link in the chain is that promotions are too tied to Shipping New Things, not improving current products or keeping things from becoming worse.
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How do we know these are real? I put the same prompts in and got proper answers!!
The answers aren’t deterministic. Which is part of the problem. While searching for these now may give you the right answers, I have personally encountered this level of bad responses enough times that none of these are surprising. There’s no need to doctor screenshots to get these responses, at least twice now Google has shown bad answers in their own marketing materials .
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literally, how does anyone find this acceptable? It makes me feel dumb that I find this outrageous, like the emperor's new clothes: y'all can see this too right?
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Query: how much would $3500 in 2015 be worth in 2024?
Edit: And got a second one: https://imgur.com/a/E9HJcpn
Query: what rhymes with pavement?
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Jesus, that kidney stones one is bad :( It's funny when the LLM totally checks out of reality, but not at all funny when the statement seems plausible to ignorant people. (A lot people seem to subscribe to an ideology of "dumb people get what they deserve." What this really means to me is "I have Dunning-Kruger syndrome," but I wonder how much of that gets filtered down into making excuses for AI that sucks so badly…
If I already know the answer to something, why would I be looking it up? These answers from AI should assume the person on the other end doesn’t know anything and isn’t going to fact check. If they were going to fact check, they’d just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with AI. To me, a real sign of intelligence and maturity is being able to say, “I don’t know.” I always lose a lot of respect for…
Keep in mind these come from the new "AI Overview" feature, which means these appear at the TOP of search results!
Considering how much Google search has shaped my life, I am somewhat* surprised by the amount of people in this thread, who apparently have zero tolerance for continued innovation in this area and the rough edges it brings. *Oh well, it's hn, after all
People don’t “have zero tolerance for continued innovation”¹, they’re tired of companies shoving shit down our throats and hailing deficient technology as the second coming of Christ. Sundar Pichai called this “more profound than fire and electricity”, for crying out loud. If they presented the technology with humility and honesty instead of throwing sand in our eyes and trying to hide the rough edges with a “trust me, bro”, you’d see them being given more slack.
¹ That’s the type of leading statement that prevents one from understanding another’s point of view. It makes a pre-judgement of something as being unambiguously good.